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I wonder if you think that all taxes are bad and should be abolished.
No.
To elaborate, I have no problem with taxes that are applied equally to generate the revenue required for government to function. My complaint is with tax policies that are formulated to manipulate us in ways that would be clearly unconstitutional if implemented as straightforward laws. If, for example, Congress passed a law that everyone was required to buy energy-efficient water heaters, and that those who didn't would be fined, I think most of us would recognize that as an unconstitutional law. Yet the tax incentives "rewarding" the purchase of energy-efficient water heaters are functionally equivalent.
Whatever.
I never understood this habit of labeling whatever you don't like about the government as unconstitutional.
We live in a democracy. That means we can use elections to fix any law we don't like. The only thing we need the Constitution for is protection of democracy and basic human rights.